RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 4 October 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

' ARRESTING / HUN SPIES. Received 8.40. PETROGRAD, October 2. Wholesale arrests of German agents continue, many of whom are disguised as commercial travellers. Numerous explosions and other outrages in munition works have traced to them. The Provisional Government has ordered- hundreds of additional arrests. , RUSSIAN ADVANCE NEAR RIGA. LONDON, October 2. A wireless Russian official reports We advanced a mile in the Riga region in the Kronenberg-Spitali-Grounduli sector. PETROGRAD, October 2. The Germans have largely massed new heavy artillery in the Riga region. Aviators report that infantry / are massed in several centres preparatory to an attack. GERMAN DREAMS. AMSTERDAM, October 2. .The Berlin "Morgan Post" admits that the military and political situation has resulted in a general defensive. It advocates a ruthless offensive notwithstanding the great sacrifices demanded. They would be more humane than a long backward and forward movement. We must convince the enemy that we are the victors. If this were attained, the blow, however, bloody, would not be in vain. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION. - PRETORIA, October 2. 'Th'e South African Parliamentary 7 Congress passed a resolution expressing willingness to re-unite the nationalists on certain conditions, including the maintenance of the Union, constitution . and carrying out the obligations eon-: nected therewith. The delegates -em-) phasised that they could have nothing to do with the Nationalists' Republican' propaganda which would be fatal to any possiblity of re-union. THE BEFERRES DISASTER. LONDON, October 2. At the inquest on the New Zealanders who were killed on the railway,'-a verdict" of accidental death was returned. The tenth victim has been identified as S. E. West. ■ The evidence showed that the men Tvene told that the first rtop would be at Exeter, where they would be sup plied with food. When the train pullec up at Beferres. a number jumped out believing that food was available.